Woensdag 04 Mei 2011

Selection of work charting the scope of artistic production in South Africa over the last century. Modern gems and rare treasures by Gerard Sekoto, Irma Stern, George Pemba, Maggie Laubser, Gerard Bhengu, JH Pierneef, Durant Sihlali, Dumile Feni & others.

1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective

Broad spectrum of contemporary African art, design, and craft, work by over 100 artists working in Africa and elsewhere. The Global Africa Project surveys the rich pool of new talent emerging from Africa and its influence on artists around the world.

madmuseum

Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.

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De tentoonstelling toont hedendaagse kunst uit Afrika en de Afrikaanse diaspora samen met objecten uit de collectie traditionele kunst. Deze oude & nieuwe kunstobjecten vinden hun relatie in de Afrikaanse gebruiken of rituelen waaraan ze gerelateerd zijn.

afrikamuseum

More than 100 extraordinary sculptures, dating from the 12th to the 15th century. Artists at Ife, the ancient Yoruba city state, created a unique sculptural corpus which ranks among the world's most aesthetically striking and technically sophisticated.

vmfa africanart.org

Brings together the full range of the artist’s work, from wood trays referring to traditional symbols of the Akan people of Ghana; to early ceramics from the artist’s Broken Pots series, driftwood assemblages that refer to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and wooden sculptures carved with a chainsaw; to the luminous metal wall-hangings of recent years.

davismuseum africanart

Deze bijzondere collectie sieraden is afkomstig uit een gebied dat zich uitstrekt van Noord-Afrika, Midden-Oosten en Azië. Ze vertellen het krachtige verhaal van schoonheid, vakmanschap en economische waarde. Ze staan voor esthetiek, maar ook voor magische spiritualiteit. Deze recent geschonken collectie wordt nu voor het eerst tentoongesteld.

wereldmuseum

The exhibition Artists in Dialogue: Sandile Zulu and Henrique Oliveira is the second in a series of exhibitions in which exciting artists (at least one of whom is African) are invited to a new encounter -- one in which each artist responds to the work of the other, and resulting in original, site-specific works at the museum.

Artists in Dialogue II

In het Westen hebben we de neiging om de wereld in te delen in ‘Wij’ versus de ‘Anderen’. We denken al snel een monopolie te hebben op alles wat modern is. Fetish Modernity toont dat dit absoluut niet het geval is en dat er ook buiten het Westen belangrijke vernieuwingen ontstaan.

africamuseum

Drawn entirely from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now features nearly 100, posters, books, and wall stencils created over the last five decades that demonstrate the exceptional reach, range, and impact of printmaking during and after a period of enormous political upheaval.

moma

Een tentoonstelling  - ism African Architecture Matters - over architectuur en de snelle veranderingen die het Afrikaanse continent ondergaan. Na aanleiding van een competitie onder Afrikaanse kunstenaars en architecten over de vraag hoe westerse musea hedendaags Afrika zouden moeten representeren, zijn werken geselecteerd die op deze tentoonstelling zijn te zien.

afrikamuseum

Jaarlijkse winnaarstentoonstelling. Foto van het jaar ging naar Jodi Bieber (Zuid-Afrika) voor haar portret van een Afghaans meisje voor Time, maar ook haar landgenoten Mike Hutchings (sport) en Thomas P. Peschak (natuur) en Somaliër Feisal Omar (dagelijks leven) zijn onderscheiden.

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At the heart of this exhibition is a paradox: the work it brings together may be understood as coming from the city, but it is not of the city. The artists' practices draw aspects of their vocabularies from conditions of the urban, yet their works are not simply descriptive of the 'city'. Work by artists such as Odili Donald Odita, Zander Blom, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Gerald Machona, Meschac Gaba.

brodiestevenson

Presents the vibrant and sophisticated photographic culture that has emerged in post-apartheid South Africa, responding to the country's powerful rethinking of issues of identity across race, gender, class and politics. Work by Jodi Bieber, Kudzanai Chiurai, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Sabelo Mlangeni, Zanele Muholi, Mikhael Subotzky, Nontsikelelo Veleko and others.

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Kunstenaars die zich toeleggen op tekenen. Mix van figuratieve en abstracte tekeningen met potlood en pastel, variërend van natuurlijke tekeningen van mensen, planten en dieren tot Afrikaanse grafische codes en symbolen. Emma van Drongelen, Laura Sassen, Joost Bakker (NL), Victor Ekpuk (Nigeria). Ekpuk baseert zich in zijn tekeningen op Nsibidi, een inheemse Afrikaanse taal die is opgebouwd uit grafische symbolen en codes.

galeriesanaa africaserver (interview met Victor Ekpuk)

Using images and metaphor to investigate the scientific contents of found reference books, Barbara Wildenboer tries to make sense of phenomena such as fractal geometry and the interconnectedness of all living things by creating visual metaphors that speak of a sense of wonder at the complicated beauty of patterns in nature.

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Nearly 60 evocative black and white landscapes. Guided by a group of former South African Defence Force soldiers, on their first trip back to the Angolan countryside since the 1988 ceasefire at Cuito Cuanavale, Ractliffe documents what she terms as the 'landscape of leftovers' from the country's devastating 27-year civil war.

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Dunn uses her body as the canvas and a point of departure into the creation of her work - be it a painting or recording herself as her alter ego sHero. "My mission is to re-interpret/ re-invent racial labels given to us by political systems. I do this through my colour palette and my camera."

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Curated show of large-scale watercolours and prints from the Botanical Artists Association of South Africa. Sibonelo Chiliza will present his first major public showing. The event forms part of the galleries Social Art Intervention Program which promotes works within the broader context of culture, heritage and society.

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Photographer David Goldblatt (b.1930) has explored the social landscape of his home country of South Africa since the late 1940s. In 1987, he generously donated a large collection of his work to the V&A Museum. View a selection of these images, focussing on the later years under apartheid rule, alongside important books by Goldblatt.

vam

A number of works that show how Hlobo uses sculpture, installation, performance and drawing to address issues of gender, cultural difference and contemporary politics. Hlobo’s work implicates viewers in the scenario of South African culture, providing enough clues to bridge the differences between his local cultural sensitivities and those of a global art world.

nasjonalmuseet

In this exhibition Siopis continues her longstanding interest in the tension between form and formlessness, figure and ground. As before, her medium and process of working are as much conceptual as they are the means to create an image; be it ink and glue paintings, or the 8mm home movie footage she uses to compose her video.

michaelstevenson

As Edmunds observes, many of us have a long and close relationship with music. From elements which are often non-narrative, mostly repetitive and largely abstract, we extract or assemble meaningful experience, repeatedly. In a series of pencil drawings, a linocut and two sculptures, Edmunds uses only line and its sculptural equivalent, edge, to explore visual correspondents for music and sound, and their constituent parts.

michaelstevenson

In the video In 50 g, a locked-off, close-up shot of a woman's bust is shown; in the foreground her hands crochet a piece of fabric using red wool. Glimpses of the body can be seen as the hands move in a rhythmic pattern. For the performance Tlhogo, Shadi crocheted a cocoon from hand-spun wool of various origins. The red woollen sheath was created specifically to fit her body, with just enough space left open for her to enter it.

michaelstevenson

Three of East Africa's most celebrated artists respond to post election violence in Kenya, showcasing each artist’s unique style in confronting the civil strife that plagued the country. The artworks of the trio, exhibiting together for the first time, alight the senses and illustrate the power and need for exceptional art locally and globally.

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El-Salahi draws on the rich literary and visual heritage of his homeland Sudan, combined with a rigorous compositional organization that seeks to balance spatial and structural concerns with an ability to reconcile intelligence and sensibility, knowledge and intuition as well as matter and spirit.

skotogallery

Zij maakt intrigerende installaties, met gefilmde performances, enorme fotoprints & gevonden voorwerpen en haar eigen lichaam als onderwerp & uitgangspunt. Zij bedekt zichzelf met lagen van kleurrijke & aromatische kruiden of andere opvallende substanties.

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Rode draad is hun visie op identiteit in een zogenaamd 'rassenloze' Zuid-Afrikaanse maatschappij. Met: Zanele Muholi (Umlazi, Durban, 1972), Dineo Seshee Bopape (Polokwane, 1981), Yvette Dunn (Durban, 1979) & Frances Goodman (Johannesburg, 1975).

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Exhibition investigates Africa in contemporary art. In addition to artists living in Africa, the show also features others who live outside the continent, artists of African descent as well as Western artists who address African issues in their work. Some 300 works by a total of 30 artists. The exhibition aims to extend the idea of what Africa, contemporary art and African contemporary art are today.

kiasma

New series of paintings that portray a cast of awkward characters and their relationships to their personal environments. The paintings are character sketches of individuals struggling against the unpredictable ways of nature. These imagined people are not only confounded by the shifting occurrences within their environments, they are also troubled by their own individual natures.

whatiftheworld

Bijzondere glaskunst van Studio Emmanuel en van glass fusion artist Frank van den Ham. De studio, opgericht door Van den Ham, begon in Alexandra, een township in Johannesburg, waar Frank met lokale kunstenaars de ramen voor een museum in die township maakte. Intussen is een studio opgericht in Magaliesburg, niet al te ver van Johannesburg. Wo en za 10-17, do en vr 10-18 uur.

izarte

Tinga Tinga sounds as it looks: colourful,cheerful, catchy and even cheeky. This exhibition displays the work of eleven artists from the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society (Dar es Salaam/Tanzania). Each has his or her own individual style. Each piece is unique. Come and immerse yourself in the fasciniating world of Tinga Tinga.

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Works featured in this installation are highly creative re-imaginings of the iconic form of the African mask. Among them are sculptural assemblages made of incongruous combinations of discarded materials by two contemporary artists from the Republic of Benin, Romuald Hazoumé (b. 1962) and Calixte Dakpogan (b. 1958).

Reconfiguring an African Icon: Odes to the Mask by Modern and Contemporary Artists from Three Continents

Explores the ways in which five contemporary artists have used the camera to explore, extend and question the power of photography as a documentary medium. Includes work by Luc Delahaye, Mitch Epstein, Guy Tillim (South Africa) and Akram Zaatari, as well as two important earlier works by Boris Mikhailov.

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